A5083745611- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Marine animal studies overview
- Fatty Acid Research and Health
- Identification and Quantification in Food
University of California, Santa Barbara
2013-2025
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
2021-2025
Environmental Defense Fund
2022-2025
University of Miami
2023
Harvard University Press
2023
The University of Adelaide
2023
University of California System
2023
James Cook University
2018-2019
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
2018-2019
Global climate change is altering community composition across many ecosystems due to nonrandom species turnover, typically characterized by the loss of specialist and increasing similarity biological communities spatial scales. As anthropogenic disturbances continue alter globally, there a growing need identify how responses influence establishment distinct assemblages, such that management actions may be appropriately assigned. Here, we use trait-based analyses compare temporal changes in...
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of Pacific food system to externalities and had far-reaching impacts, despite small number cases recorded thus far. Measures adopted mitigate risk from have severe impacts on tourism, remittances, international trade, among other aspects political economy region, are impacting systems, security livelihoods. Of particular concern will be interplay between loss incomes availability affordability local imported foods. In this paper,...
Abstract In a changing climate, there is an imperative to build coupled social‐ecological systems—including fisheries—that can withstand or adapt climate stressors. Although resilience theory identifies system attributes that supposedly confer resilience, these have rarely been clearly defined, mechanistically explained, nor tested and applied inform fisheries governance. Here, we develop apply comprehensive framework examine fishery systems across (a) ecological, (b) socio‐economic (c)...
Abstract Marine protected areas (MPAs) have gained attention as a conservation tool for enhancing ecosystem resilience to climate change. However, empirical evidence explicitly linking MPAs enhanced ecological is limited and mixed. To better understand whether can buffer impacts, we tested the resistance recovery of marine communities 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific heatwave in largest scientifically designed MPA network world off coast California, United States. The consists 124 (48 no‐take...
The Pacific food system has become progressively more integrated into global regimes. This integration had impacts on availability and consumption of food, population health, vulnerability to external drivers. We describe major elements the contemporary provide a foundation for analysis transitions public health outcomes. Although crop production doubled in last fifty years, it not kept pace with growth. deficit is increasingly filled by imported foods, particularly staples, meat sugar....
Recognized as an emerging global crisis in the mid-1990s, “nutrition transition” is marked by a shift to Western diets, dominated highly processed, sugar-sweetened, and high caloric foods. Occurring parallel these health transitions are dramatic shifts natural systems that underlie food availability access. Traditionally, environmental degradation ecosystem change, processes of nutritional transition, though often collinear potentially causally linked, have been addressed isolation. Food...
Abstract Synthesis research in ecology and environmental science improves understanding, advances theory, identifies priorities, supports management strategies by linking data, ideas, tools. Accelerating challenges increases the need to focus synthesis on most pressing questions. To leverage input from broader community, we convened a virtual workshop with participants many countries disciplines examine how where can address key questions themes coming decade. Seven priority topics emerged:...
Abstract Knowledge co-production offers a promising approach to design effective and equitable pathways reach development goals. Fisheries Strategies for Changing Oceans Resilient Ecosystems by 2030 (FishSCORE), United Nations Ocean Decade programme, will co-produce knowledge that advances solutions climate resilient fisheries through networks partnerships include scientists, stakeholders, practitioners, managers, policy experts. FishSCORE establish (1) global network develop broadly...
Abstract Both the ecological and social dimensions of fisheries are being affected by climate change. As a result, policymakers, managers, scientists fishing communities seeking guidance on how to holistically build resilience Numerous studies have highlighted key attributes in fisheries, yet concrete examples that explicitly link these social‐ecological outcomes lacking. To better understand resilience, we assembled 18 case spanning ecological, socio‐economic, governance geographic...
Ensuring healthy and sustainable food systems in increasing social, economic, ecological change is a key global priority to protect human environmental health. Seafood an essential component of these critical source nutrients, especially coastal communities. However, despite rapid transformations aquatic systems, our urgent need understand them, there dearth data connecting harvested production actualized consumption. Many analyses suggest institutional, legal, or technological innovations...
The amount of ocean protected from fishing and other human impacts has often been used as a metric conservation progress. However, protection efforts have highly variable outcomes that depend on local conditions, which makes it difficult to quantify what coral reef date actually achieved at global scale. Here, we develop predictive model how conditions influence ~2,600 sites across 44 ecoregions, much more fish biomass there is reefs compared modeled scenario with no protection. Under the...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 587:201-215 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12458 Habitat selection and aggression as determinants of fine-scale partitioning coral reef zones in a guild territorial damselfishes J. G. Eurich*, M. I. McCormick, P. Jones ARC Centre Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Biology Aquaculture, College...
Abstract Marine protected areas (MPAs) are widely implemented tools for long‐term ocean conservation and resource management. Assessments of MPA performance have largely focused on specific ecosystems individually rarely evaluated across multiple either in an individual or network. We the 59 MPAs California's large network, which encompasses 4 primary (surf zone, kelp forest, shallow reef, deep reef) bioregions, identified attributes that best explain performance. Using a meta‐analytic...
Climate change is causing direct, indirect, and cascading impacts on marine social-ecological systems, including fisheries, with increasing intensity frequency. Building climate-resilient fisheries essential for ensuring the continued flow equitable distribution of benefits, such as nutritious foods, livelihoods, cultural traditions that are necessary achieving numerous global sustainable development goals. Endorsed a programme under UN Decade Ocean Science Sustainable Development,...
Aquatic food trade distributes essential dietary nutrients from fisheries to countries around the world. However, these international networks can be impacted by a range of environmental or socioeconomic factors, like changes in management, relations, industry financing, and more. Such disruptions lower production and/or increase seafood imports, with potentially more severe negative impacts on already nutrient-insecure that are vulnerable supply chain changes. In Oceania, several Pacific...
Aquatic invertebrates are a diverse, nutrient-dense, and socio-ecologically important food whose contribution to human nutrition is frequently overlooked. We quantify their global nutrient supplies estimate the content of >50,000 macroinvertebrate species. Current aquatic invertebrate production equivalent annual requirement for >6 billion people in terms vitamin B12 selenium; >1 copper, omega 3 fatty acids, iodine zinc; >100 million nutrients such as vitamins B2 B3, iron,...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 498:217-225 (2014) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10643 California spiny lobster preference for urchins from kelp forests: implications urchin barren persistence J. G. Eurich, R. L. Selden*, Warner Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Biology, University California, Santa Barbara, 93106, USA...
Abstract Competitive interactions and resource partitioning facilitate species coexistence in complex ecosystems. However, while pairwise between ecologically similar have been well studied, multi‐species competitive networks received less attention. When interference competition two results of resources, this may indirect consequences for other distributed along the same gradient. Here, we tested whether territorial damselfish influenced fine‐scale distributions five Kimbe Bay, Papua New...
Recreational fishing is a pillar of the multibillion-dollar tourism sector in Caribbean, supporting economic development and community livelihoods. However, as climate change drives increased habitat degradation, key recreational target species may experience declines. To effectively prioritize adaptation mitigation efforts it critical to project impacts on communities that depend them. We conducted comprehensive vulnerability assessment (CVA) for three recreationally important tidal flats...
Changes in sea surface temperature have historically impacted the coral reef habitats of giant clams Kiribati. However, across many islands Kiribati, four species clam largely withstood these environmental changes. We adopted and applied a comprehensive resilience framework to assess attributes conferring limiting Kiribati data-limited fishery used knowledge co-production precautionary principle approach better understand resilience. found that climate anthropogenic impacts, as highlighted...
Abstract Calls for using marine protected areas (MPAs) to achieve goals nature and people are increasing globally. While the conservation fisheries impacts of MPAs have been comparatively well‐studied, on other dimensions human use received less attention. Understanding how humans engage with identifying traits that promote engagement is critical designing MPA networks multiple effectively, equitably minimal environmental impact. In this paper, we characterize in California's network,...
The Kiribati 2019 Integrated Household Income and Expenditure Survey (Integrated HIES) embeds novel ecological human health research into an ongoing social economic survey infrastructure implemented by the Pacific Community in partnership with national governments. This study seeks to describe status of a large, nationally representative sample geographically socially diverse I-Kiribati population through multiple clinical measurements detailed socio-economic surveys, while also conducting...